On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:55:18PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:44:42PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:53:49PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:11:21PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > > > Please update the man page accordingly, this is a major inconvenience. > > > > > > I'm afraid I can no longer change this for stable though. > > > > Are you 100% sure about this? Documentation updates are uncritical and > > this bug is really painful until you figure things out... > > Actually, I'm not completely sure. > > Looking at [1] and the developer's reference suggests that it would not > qualify - unless the requirements have changed for sarge - since it > doesn't fix a bug that would be considered release critical. > > The risk of introducing breakage is pretty non-existant though, and I > would like to get this updated myself. I might ask the stable release > manager whether he would consider approving an upload fixing this. > > For people reading the bug report (it will stay available for the > sarge version thanks to versioned BTS), please use the example given > in README.gz instead of the one from losetup.8.
TBH, I think this warrants starting a thread on debian-devel and rediscussing what does and does not qualify as fixable in a stable series. Documentation updates are almost all no-risk, but wrong documentation can be very painful. Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
